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Commercial Real Estate Seen As Strong (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Judging by recent profit figures, many of the biggest commercial real estate companies have been unscathed by the housing market slowdown.

Do real-estate agents have a secret agenda? (The Arizona Republic) - Home buyers have a new reason to be wary in this weakening housing market: Real-estate agents increasingly have lucrative incentives to push one home over another.

Real estate spoken here (Newsday) - When Cristina Matos became a real estate agent three years ago, she worried that her accent, a reminder of her Portuguese origins, would scare off potential clients.

American Real Estate 3Q Profit Rises (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - American Real Estate Partners LP, owner of real estate holdings including condominiums, golf courses and casinos, said Thursday it swung to a profit in the third-quarter, helped by revenue from its recently acquired home fashion segment.

Sotheby’s Luxury Real Estate Network Expands to Florida’s Emerald Coast (Real Estate News) - The firm will provide luxury real estate services to help attract prospective buyers from throughout the world

Intero Real Estate Services Opens New, Upscale Branch in Incline Village (Real Estate News) - Fifteen local agents join the Intero team in its mission to become the premier real estate office in North Lake Tahoe

Emergis Signs Integration Agreement with RemoteLaw to Offer its Assyst Real Estate Solution to the B.C. Legal Community (SYS-CON Media) - Emergis Inc. (TSX: EME) today announced that it has signed an agreement with RemoteLaw Online Systems Corp. of Vancouver to integrate Emergis' Assyst Real Estate solution for completing mortgage transactions with RemoteLaw's web-based econveyance(TM) software. The three-year agreement targets Assyst Real Estate to be offered to all of RemoteLaw's econveyance users and the British Columbia law

Slumping market forces real estate schools to join hands (Business Journal of Tampa Bay) - As the number of applicants for real estate school flattens during the current market slow down, two schools have partnered to offer property management courses.

Ishaan Real Estate Seeks Alternative Invest Market Admission (Nasdaq) - LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Ishaan Real Estate said Thursday that it seeks Alternative Investment Market admission in late November 2006.

Canadian Real Estate Investment Trust Announces Third Quarter 2006 Results (SYS-CON Media) - Canadian Real Estate Investment Trust ('CREIT') (TSX: REF.UN) today announced results for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006.